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I was outside getting some earthworms for our pet turtle and lookwhat I found on the ground I picked it up and put into a nice dry place. I think its a praying mantis egg sack. what do you think? let me know if you think its still viable or where I should keep it. Last year we had tons of babies in the same area. so maybe. My avatar is one of those babies

@Luci Dawson wrote:That looks just like the praying mantis sacs that I find in several places on my house wall every year. Have never found one on the ground, but do see the babies and adults frequently.

Well that is great news. I put the sack in a spot thats nice and dry out of the rain hopefully I will have some more babies this year

May 31, 2010 - My wife and I are sitting on the front porch enjoying a glorious late spring afternoon when I look over and see this.

There were literally dozens of these little bitty guys who had just hatched. It was really neat.

That looks like the bottom of what the egg sack that hatched all those little guys above would have looked like had we scraped it off the porch. Ours was attached to the mortar right under that cap where the babies are hanging out.

Thank you so much for starting this thread!!! I have never seen one of those but for sure I will be on the look out for them now! Praying Mantis is not very common here, but I have seen a few adults in the past several years.

I found an egg sack at the community garden last spring. I was so excited to see them! Alas, they didn't survive the very wet March & April we had in Cincinnati. Maybe this year... I will have to go back down there & look around.